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package org.apache.hop.core.annotations;

import java.lang.annotation.*;

/**
 * This annotation signals to the Hop plugin registry that it needs to consider the annotated class
 * as a carte servlet plugin. The class needs to implement the IHopServerPlugin interface
 */
@Documented
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @interface HopServerServlet {

  /**
   * @return The ID of the plugin. You can specify more than one ID in a comma separated format:
   *     id1,id2,id3 for deprecation purposes.
   */
  String id();

  String name();

  String description() default "";

  /** @return True if a separate class loader is needed every time this class is instantiated */
  boolean isSeparateClassLoaderNeeded() default false;

  String classLoaderGroup() default "";
}
